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Understanding Ebola Virus Transmission

2015; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/v7020511

1999-4915

Seth Judson, Joseph Prescott, Vincent J. Munster,

Disaster Response and Management

An unprecedented number of Ebola virus infections among healthcare workers and patients have raised questions about our understanding of Ebola virus transmission. Here, we explore different routes of Ebola virus transmission between people, summarizing the known epidemiological and experimental data. From this data, we expose important gaps in Ebola virus research pertinent to outbreak situations. We further propose experiments and methods of data collection that will enable scientists to fill these voids in our knowledge about the transmission of Ebola virus.